In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become...as strong as they can be.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.